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At 79, Liew Mun Leong has no time to be sentimental
His self-avowed ‘pragmatic’ operating style, he says, was deeply influenced by pioneering leaders.
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Mr Liew Mun Leong has three passions: engineering, real estate and talent.
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Looking out from his memorabilia-filled high-floor office in Centrium Square in Serangoon Road, Mr Liew Mun Leong is fully aware of the distance he has travelled in life.
Nearby Jalan Besar – once an area where gangsters roamed – is where he spent his early childhood. Home then was a one-room tenement occupied by seven people, including his parents and grandmother. He himself slept on a foldable cot in the corridor, pouring hot water over the canvas on Sundays to rid it of bed bugs.
